Can This Site Sustain a Forum?
If I opened one back up, would anybody be interested in posting? I’d want to keep the number of sections low, like I had when I used ezboard. Right now I’m thinking of having the following sections: Programming Discussion, Web Programming Discussion, Thoughts and Opinions, and Errors and Suggestions.
It’s been almost a year since the relaunch of this site, and though I’m now getting between 500 and 600 visitors a day, the blog only sees a small fraction of that (maybe around 15%), so I’m unsure if I have a large enough base to actually launch a forum like the old one I had. I may try and partner up with other sites and do a shared forum type thing, though I’d have to think about it. Let me know if you’d be interested in one. If I get no / little feed back I’ll just wait on it.
Also, I am working on some updates. I aim to have some new content up by the end of the week.
I’d post on it. I haven’t had a good mutli-focus forum to go to in a long time.
If there’s something I can do to get people to it, let me know.
If you were to decide to once again open the forums I would post on them as well. I agree that online messageboards and forums tend to be tricky in terms of activity and relative traffic, but over time you’ll eventually see whether there will be continual growth, if it will plateau at a certain point, or if it will completely fail. I remember I used to have a lot of questions, which I’d ask on your forums regarding different API calls in Visual Basic. I still have a large number of questions to ask, but they are all pretty much regarding .NET.
I’d be there.
Brian -local
I would probably post. If you discussed things I cared about (I’m a java girl at heart.) And yes, it is possible to discuss computers on a level that doesn’t include programming languages…. but what would be the point?